Comments on: The Never-Ending Grief I Get For Being a Dixie Chicks Fanhttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/
Celebrating Ten Years: 2004-2014Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:59:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: KatieRhttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-194771
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:07:10 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-194771I realize this is from a long time ago, but I had to post. I was literally jumping up and down screaming in excitement with each award they won. Long overdue. My roommates (I was in college at the time) were laughing at how hysterical I was (they’re R&B fans). But, ya know, it felt like vindication a little bit for us Chicks fans too.

Now where’s Natalie, CYH are good but we need her back! ;)

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Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:47:12 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3755Amen, Kevin, amen.
]]>By: Paul W Dennishttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3749
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:09:01 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3749I think you misread my opinion of the Chix CD – I do like (I did purchase it – after listening to it). I do not love the CD – I reserve the right to think it’s the worst of their post-Indy CDs and still like it – if I didn’t like the disc I would not have purchased it. There are some weak songs on it – I would have uprated it considerably if the had left off the infantile “Not Ready To Make Nice” and replaced it with something else (even their take on Acky Breaky Heart” or some pablum from Air Supply would have been an improvement !)

This CD was a B, possibly a B+ . That doesn’t equate to a Grammy in my book

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Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:25:07 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3750See, Chet didn’t state any facts. He just expressed opinion on the Grammy voter’s motivations, which he (and you) have no way of knowing. Do you think it’s possible that you’re just projecting your own opinions of the music onto theirs? It seems that since you don’t like the album, you assume they must not like it either and just made a political statement, when it seems just as possible, if not more so, that the Grammy voters that loved their last three albums loved this one, too, and that weaker competition in the big categories gave them a clean sweep. If you believe that Grammy voters were voting politically, I have to ask if you think that I don’t really like the album, either, and I’m just pushing it for political reasons? Is everything I’ve written in praise of Taking the Long Way a fraudulent ruse on my part to reward the Chicks’ political agenda?

I don’t take any of the Chicks criticism personally, so I don’t know where you’re getting that from. What I wrote was that it was my favorite music of 2006 (well-documented on this site, as you know) and I’m happy that what I think was the best music of 2006 was honored as such. I felt the same joy when Lee Ann Womack won the CMA’s for “I May Hate Myself in the Morning” and “There’s More Where That Came From” in 2005, when Chapin won the Grammy for Best Country Album for “Stones in the Road”, and, more than any other awards show moment, when Pam Tillis won CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in 1994. I don’t see anything wrong with being proud of artists that make music I care about. Good Lord, I’m proud of my students when they do great things that I have nothing to do with. I love watching people succeed and be rewarded for a job well done.

(FYI, I’ve edited this comment a couple of times to make sure that I’m being as respectful to your opinions as possible. We don’t always agree, but I do respect your opinion.)

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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:35:22 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3751Chet was not bitter – he was simply stating facts. Personally, I feel that any voter that felt like they had to “make a statement” instead of assessing artistic merit should have their voting privileges forever revoked for they truly have betrayed the purpose of the Grammys

p.s. – Why is all criticism of the Chix taken so personally, Kevin ? The Chix could care less about what you or I think about them. I am neither proud nor ashamed of them, after all, why should I be? I had no role whatsoever in either their artistic success or failure, and as far as I can tell, neither did you.

If only they had made a Grammy worthy album instead of their weakest album since the last pre-Sony album

]]>By: Kevinhttp://www.countryuniverse.net/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3752
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:30:24 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3752Chet sounded bitter to me, and desperate to make the Nashville establishment’s case. But I find myself not even caring the least bit about the critics of Maines and the band this time around. I have no interest in the overwhelmingly positive statement that was made about my favorite band and my favorite music that they’ve ever made devolving into another pissing contest with those who’d like to see them falter, or who insist on interpreting this as a political statement or a middle finger to Nashville. From my perspective, it was the best music of the past year being honored as the best music of the past year. It brought me great joy to see and I’m so thankful that the Grammys got it right in 2007. The girls made me proud!
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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:40:16 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3753I love your synopsis of the “before and after” reactions to being a Chicks fan. The whole issue is complicated for me. Even though I am liberal and a Chicks fan (independent of politics), I find Maines a little grating at times. I don’t think she’s an elegant speaker by any stretch of the imagination (despite the fact that I agree with what she’s saying). I’m hoping with their next album they move beyond this. Not that they shouldn’t continue to tackle controversial topics, but they shouldn’t let this define them.
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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:30:34 +0000http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/the-never-ending-grief-you-get-for-being-a-dixie-chicks-fan/#comment-3754I think Chet Flippo, whose opinion I always respect but only sometimes agree with, got in completely right this week. America is a very tolerant country, but often it’s the way you express it that causes problems – the difference between showing some class and being an ass. Even my liberal friends (mostly in the 50+ crowd, because that is, after all, my age bracket) think that Natalie Maines acts like a spoiled five year old.